From the word Russia.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 26956 |
| Format | 14.5 x 22.5 |
| Détails | 62 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782377921188 |
So it only took a few signs to create a distance that was both disturbing and fabulous: the presence of a bear, menacing in the mountains or comical in a fairground parade, a troop of ragged gypsies with a closed and rather aggressive expression, log houses, onion-domed bell towers. With all this, in the background, the immensity of the expanses to be crossed, their savagery, the violence of the risky confrontations with the elements, the beasts, the avowed or masked enemy.
From picturesque evocation to metaphysical test, from the engravings of Michael Strogoff to Cry Dostoevskian, Philippe Jaccottet takes us in these pages to a completely internal Russia. He summons the greatest voices of Western literature and thought (Dante, Cervantes, Nietzsche, Rimbaud, Dostoevsky, Chalamov), to whom the 19th and 20th centuries of Russia have contributed so much. This dark, roaring itinerary, in a geography of words and images, is more evocative than all the travel journals; and there is more Russia in the insane note of hope that concludes this text than in all the visions of apocalypse that we are so readily served up.
So it only took a few signs to create a distance that was both disturbing and fabulous: the presence of a bear, menacing in the mountains or comical in a fairground parade, a troop of ragged gypsies with a closed and rather aggressive expression, log houses, onion-domed bell towers. With all this, in the background, the immensity of the expanses to be crossed, their savagery, the violence of the risky confrontations with the elements, the beasts, the avowed or masked enemy.
From picturesque evocation to metaphysical test, from the engravings of Michael Strogoff to Cry Dostoevskian, Philippe Jaccottet takes us in these pages to a completely internal Russia. He summons the greatest voices of Western literature and thought (Dante, Cervantes, Nietzsche, Rimbaud, Dostoevsky, Chalamov), to whom the 19th and 20th centuries of Russia have contributed so much. This dark, roaring itinerary, in a geography of words and images, is more evocative than all the travel journals; and there is more Russia in the insane note of hope that concludes this text than in all the visions of apocalypse that we are so readily served up.